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This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis, seek to break down barriers and build bridges between scholarly disciplines, musical repertoires, and cultural traditions. Covering a wide range of genres, styles, and performers, the chapters bring to bear a variety of methodologies, including indigenous theoretical perspectives, Western music theory, and interdisciplinary techniques rooted in the cognitive and computational sciences.

With contributors addressing music traditions from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this volume captures the many current directions in the analysis of world music, offering a state of the fi eld and demonstrating the expansion of possibilities created by this area of research.

List of figures and tables ..ix
List of contributors ...xiv
Introduction ...1
1. Phenomenology of Segah Mugham Creativity on the Tar ...9
Polina Dessiatnichenko
2. Rhythm, Form, and Performance in Ladakhi Traditional Songs ...26
Noé Dinnerstein
3. Moving to the Music: Quantity of Motion as a Tool to Study North Indian Raga Performance ...42
Laura Leante
4. From Dusk till Dawn: Analysis of Cretan Music Festivities ...65
Andre Holzapfel
5. The Continua of Sound Qualities for Tanya Tagaq’s Katajjaq Sounds ...85
Kristi Hardman
6. Representing and Experiencing Rhythm in Drumming from Santiago de Cuba ...100
Andy McGraw and Fernando Benadon
7. Tapping to Recordings of Bulgarian Music: A Cross-Cultural Study of Meter and Tempo ...125
Daniel Goldberg
8. Tempo, Meter, and Form: An Analysis of "Dansa" from Mali ...143
Rainer Polak and Justin London
9. Mapping Timbral Surfaces in Alpine Yodeling: New Directions in the Analysis of Tone Color for Unaccompanied Vocal Music ...159
Lawrence Beaumont Shuster and Yannick Wey
10. Creative Processes in Improvising Jíbaro Décima ...196
Jaime O. Bofill Calero
11. "Da mihi manum": An Irish Arcanum ...213
Áine Heneghan
12. Toward a Theory of İka: The Rhythmic Identity of Melody in Late Eighteenth-Century Turkish Art Music ...238
Nikolaus Grill and Stefan Pohlit
13. Applying the Generative Theory of Tonal Music to World Music Idioms: An Analytical Approach to the Polyphonic Singing of Epirus ...260
Costas Tsougras
14. Language Models and World Music Analysis ...283
Somangshu Mukherji
Index...332